The lack of women gives the open-source industry a distinctly sexist feel. However, this is not deterring the fairer sex from making their mark!

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Monday, February 10, 2014:
Honestly speaking, far fewer women technologists work in the industry than men with men outnumbering women at a rate of about 4 to 1 in terms of computer-related jobs. The same trend follows in the open-source software industry as well with studies suggesting that 1 out of 10 open-source programmers are women (about 10 per cent).

Despite these statistics, it is absolutely possible for a woman in the field to make a fabulous career in the world of open source technology. Ask these women with awesome careers working on Linux, who are indeed an aspiration!

1. Elena Zannoni, director of the Linux Tools and Languages team at Oracle

-Came to the Linux world from years working on other open-source projects, starting at Cygnus Solutions bought by Red Hat and then eventually being hired by Oracle.

-She is a regular Linux conference speaker, and volunteers to organise the Linux Plumbers Conference.